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Poll Question: Which of these is your favorite?
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
4 [3.45%]
4 [3.45%]
8 [6.90%]
5 [4.31%]
3 [2.59%]
3 [2.59%]
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4 [3.45%]
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11 [9.48%]
7 [6.03%]
14 [12.07%]
5 [4.31%]
3 [2.59%]
4 [3.45%]
0 [0.00%]
1 [0.86%]
13 [11.21%]
8 [6.90%]
10 [8.62%]
3 [2.59%]
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I did a thread similar to this. Big smile When it comes to prog it was best to look towards new artists than to the old ones. The mellotron on The Hurting made me a Tears For Fears Fan.  Lots of good albums in the poll that I love and are in my collection and a few I should probably check out.  But yeah, for me it's Steve Tibbetts Yr. I kinda hate to say it but his first two before he got on ECM are my favorites. I think that the started to get better as his ECM albums went on.  Cosmic Messenger, The Dreaming, Discipline, Mummer, Wichita Falling (heheheheh), Ghost In The Machine, Security. Some great artists from the '70's did not succumb to commericalitis and some great new artists were out there to be enjoyed. BTW it was Synchronicity that converted me to The Police.  That and I Advanced Masked.
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Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Arh nuts! I missed the part about multivoting
I have effectively remedied that with some sugar for Kate Bush, Crimson, Simple Minds, Solaris, The Police and The Cure. I love all these albums for quite different reasons.

Oh and Drew. I would have taken you for a Siouxsie fan as well with your affinity for female vocals
Hyæna and A Kiss In The Dreamhouse are two of my faves.

I noticed that, too (my affinity for female vocalists--and boys who chose to look like women)! But Siouxsie's music never hooked me in (though her rendition of "Trust in Me" is INCREDIBLE!)

Plus, I just realized that I left off Bruce Cockburn and Jane Siberry! AAARGH!
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Bart, did you mean Ponty's 1980 album, Civilized Evil? That's my favorite of his.

Some great albums in that list by Crimson, Fixx, Tibbetts, Solaris, Kate Bush, The Police.
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Many good ones there...
Cocteau twins (Treasure is my favorite Cocteau lp)
Bush
Crimson
XTC (one of my favorite non prog bands) 
Metheny (been rediscovering his music and buying all the original early vinyl)
Police
Gabriel
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Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

I don’t know most of these (bar the Prog titles) - but - someone here likes Swing Out Sister ??
I had the hots for Corrine D in the 80’s. It’s better to travel - very good album. Communion was my fave song, though I haven’t listened to this for over 20 years.
Oh, Eskaton is my pick from those I’m familiar with.

I can never hear "Surrender" enough times--especially the "Stuff Gun Mix"! Corrine's laughs! The trumpet! The beats!
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I actually meant that Jean-Luc Ponty release to be Individual Choice but would gladly replace it with Bruce Cockburn's Stealing Fire or Big Circumstance.
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Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

I actually meant that Jean-Luc Ponty release to be Individual Choice but would gladly replace it with Bruce Cockburn's Stealing Fire or Big Circumstance.
 

Sorry for calling you Bart. I thought Slartbartifast posted the poll. LOL
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My favorites from the list:

King Crimson - Discipline
Tears for Fears - The Hurting
The Police - Ghost in the machine
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Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

I actually meant that Jean-Luc Ponty release to be Individual Choice but would gladly replace it with Bruce Cockburn's Stealing Fire or Big Circumstance.
 

Sorry for calling you Bart. I thought Slartbartifast posted the poll. LOL
Yeah I thought Cosmic Messenger wasn't an '80's album.  It's 1978 and you know I am a stickler for those kind of things.  Ponty's first '80's album that I have was Mystical Adventures followed by Individual Choice, Open Mind, Fables (saw him live on that tour), The Gift Of Time, and Storytelling.
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There's almost nothing on that list which I particularly like or dislike.

Which perhaps says something about the 80's

or me,

or both.


Edited by Braka1 - April 29 2020 at 12:03

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Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

I actually meant that Jean-Luc Ponty release to be Individual Choice but would gladly replace it with Bruce Cockburn's Stealing Fire or Big Circumstance.
 

Sorry for calling you Bart. I thought Slartbartifast posted the poll. LOL
Yeah I thought Cosmic Messenger wasn't an '80's album.  It's 1978 and you know I am a stickler for those kind of things.  Ponty's first '80's album that I have was Mystical Adventures followed by Individual Choice, Open Mind, Fables (saw him live on that tour), The Gift Of Time, and Storytelling.

Funny, that, as the first time I saw Jean-Luc it was on the Cosmic Messenger tour--as a warmup to The Police!
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The Police and Kate Bush certainly. Ghost In The Machine is a special album.

Would have gone for Simple Minds it was Sparkle In The Rain . Up On The Catwalk and Waterfront are the tracks I really love by them.
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Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

I actually meant that Jean-Luc Ponty release to be Individual Choice but would gladly replace it with Bruce Cockburn's Stealing Fire or Big Circumstance.
 

Sorry for calling you Bart. I thought Slartbartifast posted the poll. LOL

Yeah I thought Cosmic Messenger wasn't an '80's album.  It's 1978 and you know I am a stickler for those kind of things.  Ponty's first '80's album that I have was Mystical Adventures followed by Individual Choice, Open Mind, Fables (saw him live on that tour), The Gift Of Time, and Storytelling.
Fables is my favourite 80’s Ponty album !! Scott Henderson, Rayford Griffin and Baron Browne - what players !!
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Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

I don’t know most of these (bar the Prog titles) - but - someone here likes Swing Out Sister ??
I had the hots for Corrine D in the 80’s. It’s better to travel - very good album. Communion was my fave song, though I haven’t listened to this for over 20 years.
Oh, Eskaton is my pick from those I’m familiar with.


I can never hear "Surrender" enough times--especially the "Stuff Gun Mix"! Corrine's laughs! The trumpet! The beats!
‘Stuff Gun Mix’ I recall that version - something about a lucidious vacuum cleaner mouth haha ?? I may be digging this one out coz it’s been a long time.
My 80’s picks, outside of Prog, are Sade, Kajagoogoo, Haircut One Hundred, Japan and a handful of Thrash bands.

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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

The Police and Kate Bush certainly. Ghost In The Machine is a special album.

Would have gone for Simple Minds it was Sparkle In The Rain . Up On The Catwalk and Waterfront are the tracks I really love by them.




Definitely enjoy The Police and the first few solo outings of Sting’s, but for the last 20 years+ I feel Sting has disappeared up the proverbial crack. Too much Coke and Tantric sex....

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I do like Ghost In the Machine, but my favourite Police albums are Zenyatta Mondatta and Synchronicity. Ghost has some really great tracks (its hit singles first and foremost, as well as "Rehumanise Yourself" and "Secret Journey"), but overall I think it is rather inconsistent. Synchronicity, in comparison, is a much more cohesive journey in my view, and it probably represents Sting's peak as a songwriter (the only track I struggle to appreciate is Andy Summers' "Mother").
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of these, Simple Minds, though if it was either of David Sylvian's subsequent 2 albums he would have won easily
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Voted for Prefab Sprout: Steve McQueen was a good album. Not the best on the list but... 


Eighties: Some of my fave album:

1) Springsteen  all the albums: The River/Nebraska/Born in the Usa/Tunnel of Love

2) John Hiatt Bring The Family /Slow Turning

3) U2 October /The Unforgettable Fire/ The Joshua Tree / Rattle and Hum

4) Simple Minds Empire and Dance /New Gold Dream /Street Fighting Years

5) Bryan Adams Reckless

6) Toto Toto IV /Isolation

7) Fabrizio De Andrè Creuza de Ma

8) CCCP Etica Etnica Epica Pathos

9) Peter Gabriel  IV

10) Yes 90125

11) Marillion Misplaced Childhood

12) The Smiths The Queen Is Dead

13) The Housemartins  London 0 - Hull 4

14) Prefab Sprout  Steve McQueen

15) Suzanne Vega I /Solitude Standing

16) Tracy Chapman I / Crossroads

17) REM: Life's Rich Pageant

18) Nick Cave: From Her to Eternity

19) Police: Synchronicity

20) Sting: The dream of the Blue Turtles / Nothing like the Sun

21) Noiseworks : Touch

22) The The : Dusk

23) King Crimson: Beat

24) Dire Straits: Making Movies /Brothers in Arms

25) Talk Talk: The Colour of Spring / Spirit Of Eden


Edited by jamesbaldwin - April 29 2020 at 18:45
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man...  trying to come up with a list of favorite albums from that decade.. impossible man.. even a top 5 is rough.

Nice list Drew.. you were close on one one of top 5's so I'll shoot it a vote


Talking Heads - Remain in Light... what better album to usher in the 80's..  and for many in the know.. it was considered the single best album of the 80's

Def Leppard - HIgh and Dry..  back when they rocked.. and good god almighty this album ruled... this was one of the favorite put on before heading out on a night of sacking and pillaging...

Tears for Fears - Song From the Big Chair..   the debut was good Drew.. but this was their masterpiece no doubt and one of the best albums of the decade.

can't have a top 5 80's album list.. or a top 3 IMO without this gem

Talk Talk - Sprit of Eden.. .while everyone else was playing musical checkers.. even if much was high quality.. this was chess to everyone's checkers..  so ahead of everyone else.. it took the genre it inspired another decade to form up

and if Remain in Light was the perfect album to usher out the 70's and bring in the 80's this one was the perfect exit to the joy and general happiness that was the 80's and into the much darker 90's

Jane's Addiction - Nothing Shocking.. again.. years ahead of were everyone else would be going.
The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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If it wasn't for the King Crimson I wouldn't have voted for the Police album. Kate Bush is a really good album as well. And U2 Boy is just about their best album although maybe not as good as Joshua Tree.
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